Quotes About Acceptance

As long as you're living in regret, focused on the negative things of the past, you won't move ahead to the bright future God has in store. You need to let go of what didn't work out. Let go of your hurts and pains. Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can't do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.

God made you as you are on purpose. He gave you your looks, your height, your skin color, your nose, your personality. Nothing about you is by accident. You didn't get overlooked. You didn't get left out. God calls you His masterpiece. Instead of going around feeling down on yourself, unattractive, too tall, too short, not enough of this, or too much of that, dare to get up in the morning and say, "I am a masterpiece. I am created in the image of Almighty God.

As good as the people are in your life, there are no perfect people. There is no perfect boss, no perfect friend, no perfect neighbor, no perfect spouse. Give people room to be human. Quit expecting them to perform perfectly all the time.

You've been made in the image of God. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God's creation. You're saying, "God, You didn't do too good on me." No, God wasn't having an off day when He created you. He calls you a masterpiece.

When you base your value on what other people say or do to you, that's going to push you down. But when you base it on what God says about you, it's going to lift you up to the next level.

When you understand that everything serves His plan, you won't live frustrated by things that aren't fair, stressed over things you don't like, upset because it's taking too long.

You have to accept that some people are not going to be for you and that's okay. You don't need them to fulfill your destiny. Your job is to guard your heart. Don't let the offense, the bitterness, the poison get in. You do your part and God will do His part.

Nothing you can do will make God love you more.

Where is the love that will overlook a person's faults?

Are you writing off someone because they don't believe, they're not making good decisions, they're against what you stand for? Start sowing seeds of love, showing mercy instead of judgment.

You shouldn't be constantly uptight, worried, rebuking, resisting, and trying to fix things. It takes a mature person to say, "Everything is not perfect. I have some struggles and some situations I wish were different, but can I tell you that all is well? I'm at peace. I'm not upset. I know at the right time God will remove the weeds. Until then I'm going to relax and enjoy my life." First the Weed, Then the Harvest

When we make mistakes, God doesn't change His mind about us. If you run away from God, instead of turning the other way, God will come running toward you. Quit trying to earn His love. There's nothing you can do to make God love you any more or any less. It's a gift. Just receive it by faith.

God loves you right now. He loved you when you were doing wrong. He loved you when you were off course. The apostle Paul says that nothing can separate us from the love of God. You are a marked man, a marked woman. God put His love on you. Now you are permanently loved.

Release control. Quit worrying, quit trying to make it happen your way and say, "God, I trust You. I know You're in control of these winds. They can push me forward, backward, left, right, but one thing I'm certain of: where You take me is exactly where I'm supposed to be.

When you understand that everything serves God's plan, you won't be frustrated by things that are unfair, stressed over things you don't like, upset because it's taking too long.

When thoughts tell you, "Who do you think you are?" just answer back, "I'm a child of the Most High God. I am redeemed, restored, accepted, and approved.

God accepts and approves you right where you are: faults, mistakes, shortcomings, and all. He knows you're on a journey. He's changing you little by little. He accepts you. Now, you have to accept yourself.

You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to prove yourself to them. Just stay on the high road and let God fight your battles for you. Some who will cross your path simply don't want peace with you. No matter what you say or do, they will not be won over. Even if you were to change, they would still find some reason to be critical. You have to accept the fact that no matter what you do, some people will never be at peace with you.

You're not going to qualify as a son when you perform well enough.

I'm not going to complain

You have to trust that God is in control, that He's planned out all of your days, that He knows what's best for you. Instead of fighting where you are, learn to embrace where you are.

Those scars don't have to stop you. The scars are simply your story. The scars can be your testimony. You don't have to hide them. Everyone has scars.

Let us have no addresses to which God's grace is to be sent because God is not interested in one person more than in another.

We were under the law when we were under Moses. We came under grace when we came under Christ Jesus. But this grace cannot act except through our recognition and acceptance of it.